For those who love design by Christian Stoll

With an overload of lifestyle imagery in advertising these days, sometimes it is the more interesting approach to focus on the product. BRANSCH artist Christian Stoll’s vision for this recent personal project was to focus on high end consumer products that get purchased by those consumers that simply love design.

In this still life series, Christian put a high end camera on a pedestal, showcasing its features on evershifting planes, but our eye is drawn to the camera alone, like an irresistable gem.

Who needs models and locations? The product is the hero. A piece of art in itself.

kid’s wear covers by Achim Lippoth

kid´s wear, established in 1995, is a magazine for children´s fashion, lifestyle and culture, published by BRANSCH artist Achim Lippoth.

Called “The most beautiful magazine in the world!” by Bruce Weber, the world´s best photographers and many of today´s eminent photographic artists interpret fashion and contemporary lifestyle in this magazine of over more than 280 pages.

Twice a year, for the beginning of each fashion season, they collaborate with both established and new writers who write about childhood in today´s world in articles, essays and short stories.
Kid´s wear has an international outlook and an international readership, appearing in English, German and Italian, and has been annually recognized by Lead Awards (2005-present) for fashion, lifestyle articles, lifestyle photography, mood and fashion photography, Art Directors Club Deutschland (2005-9, 2011-present) for editorial design, photography, editorial article, and cover, and Art Directors Club New York (2005-7, 2011) for editorial design.

Check out the new issue of Grossartig

Grossartig, the magazine recognized by the 91st Art Directors Club Awards for Editorial Design is back! It still lives up to its meaning in German: great, beautiful, with gorgeous imagery for your eyes to see in rich detail at sizes you could never appreciate in a 72dpi, computer screen format.

Alexandra Klever for LITTL BY LILIT

BRANSCH artist Alexandra Klever photographed the selected pieces by Littl by Lilit, a new label for children, based in Berlin and designed by Lilit Borkowsky.

Littl by Lilit clothes are produced in a factory in Jaipur, an area known for its preservation of the ancient Indian technique of block printing. Combining Indian fabrics and traditional attire with geometric patterns and German minimalism, Littl by Lilit has practical, comfortable clothes for urban children.

With this philosophy in mind, Alexandra kept the art direction friendly, and approachable. Alexandra kept the focus on the fair-trade, 100% cotton pieces, showing that children will love the light feeling of the garments, look fashionable, but also free to play and have fun with their friends. These clothes are meant to be worn over a long period of time and the airy oversized look will take on a more fitted appearance as the child grows. MORE

ADC winners in Editorial Design: Grossartig and Kid’s Wear Magazines!

We are pleased to announce that the first issue of Grossartig Magazine was recognized for Merit by the 2012 Art Director’s Club Awards in the category of Editorial Design. If you’re interested in getting a copy, please find the contact link on the accompanying website, www.grossartigmag.com. There you can also see Grossartig magazine-related videos by June-Louis and Christian Stoll.

Congratulations to BRANSCH artist Achim Lippoth for his publication “kid’s wear Magazine.” Last year’s issue, Vol 33. Autumn/Winter 2011/12, won the Bronze in the same category.

Hara Katsiki for Popular Operations NY

When BRANSCH artist Hara Katsiki was working as an art director and illustrator for Pulk Berlin, she designed a brochure for Popular Operations, a NY-based creative collective of interdisciplinary thinkers, analysts, professionals and artists helping business, government and social institutions operate harmoniously within the complex interlocking cultures of tomorrow.

In the brochure, the main points of focus were foresight, consultation and creation. Hara was given lots of artistic freedom to visually interpret Popular Operations’ positioning and goal in the market. Considering the company’s philosphy, she used strong heavy typography, bright vivid colors, and handdrawn technical illustrations to give the brochure a fresh and clean overall feeling.The aim was to create a direct, straight, analytic, unpretentious and dynamic result. MORE

GROSSARTIG: a film by June-Louis

BRANSCH artistic duo June-Louis have created a video that is quite a page-turner!

In conjunction with the publication of GROSSARTIG, a new quarterly large-format magazine devoted to photography, illustration and design, June-Louis have animated the experience of flipping through GROSSARTIG in a playful way, sometimes using actions inspired by the images on the page.

BRANSCH artist Philippe Intraligi was approached by a Li-Ning LNG, a new sports fashion brand in China that targets Generation One (those born under the one child policy). Li-Ning LNG is about a happy and positive attitude, encouraging creativity, and consciousness about the environment. The core concepts of the Spring/Summer 2011 collection are: Nature Lover, City Cruiser, and Happy Wind

Philippe wore many different hats during his work with Li-Ning LNG. He lead the creative direction for branding, the graphic design of the apparel collection, as well as the designing a concept with the architect Goetz Schrader for a mobile exhibition space bringing the LNG collection to second and third tier cities in China. Delivered by truck, the plain looking container unfolds and reveals a number of functions: presentation boxes, changing rooms, lounge, laptop area. MORE

BRANSCH welcomes Hara Katsiki!

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Hara Katsiki, also known as “inklovespaper,” is a visual artist and awardwinning art director, born in Greece. Though mainly known for illustration, she expresses her creative vision across all types of media: graphic design, animation, costume design and music.

Her personal work delves into realms of the subconscious, is populated by fantastic figures and otherworldly creatures, and decorated by ornamental patterns. She is familiar with drawing tools, both analog (ink, watercolors, graphite, acrylics, etc) and digital (Adobe CS, including After Effects) and freely uses them all when realizing her projects.

Currently, she is based in Berlin and her illustration work has garnered recognition like the 2010 Swatch Young Illustrator’s Award (“Opium”), and the official Alfa Romeo fine art prints collection (“Synthetic Imagination”). Her fine art is also being showcased in her first solo exhibition at the West Berlin Gallerie in this upcoming September.